Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(LOUIS XIII, King of France.) L'Entrée du Roy et de la Royne dans sa Ville de Lyon: ou le Soleil au Signe du Lyon. Folding engraved plate and 11 full-page illustrations. [12], [3]-185, [3] pages, including final blank; lacks (blank?) A1. bound with: Reception de tres-chrestien, tres-juste, et tres-victorieux Monarque Louys XIII . . . et de . . . Royne Anne d'Austriche: Par Messieurs les Doyen, Chanoines & Comtes de Lyon. 4 folding engraved plates and 3 full-page illustrations. 67 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 299x198 mm, 18th-century 1/4 calf gilt; occasional dampstaining in lower portion of contents, some browning or foxing of text, K1 and L1 in first work cropped in outer margin affecting rule border in illustrations on recto, later owners' notes on endpaper facing first title; marbled edges. Bookplate of William Poidebard. Lyon: Jean Jullieron, 1624; Jacques Roussin, 1623

Additional Details

Second edition and first edition, respectively, of fête books published to commemorate the 11 December 1622 entry of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria into Lyon on a victory tour following the defeat of first Huguenot rebellion. The illustrations in the second work include depictions of firework displays. Berlin 2990-2991.